hey guys matt here from mksmarthouse.com andin this video i will be showing you what my channel is all about. [intro] welcome to my smart home, this is a systemi designed that is a large majority of diy home made smart devices.
Android raspberry pi, when i say diy i mean i designed and codedmost of these devices. but, let me emphasize the “i†part, asi designed and coded this so you do not have to. there is very little brain power involvedon your part if you choose to follow my system,
all you would have to do is follow simpleinstructions and you too will have a smart home similar to mine. this youtube channel as well as mksmarthouse.comwill be a giant recource full of simple and easy to follow guides on how to make thesedevices in addition to how to put this low-cost system together. yes i did say low-cost because the parts forthese devices do not cost a lot of money. but, enough talking as the explanation partof this will be a separate video, speaking of if this video reaches 100 likes i willrelease it sooner than it is planned. anyways let's just get into the demo!
to start off let's talk about voice control,as of right now i am using the amazon echo dot as well as siri on my iphone and on myapple watch, in the future i am also looking into voice control on android. that being said before we continue pleasemake sure that if you have an amazon echo please make sure it is set to mute or elseit may get triggered by my commands. “alexa, turn off mk lightâ€â€œalexa, turn on mk light†“alexa turn off computer setupâ€so, as you saw when i triggered it to turn off my computer setup it turned off my monitorsand it also turned off my usb accessories as well as power to these devices so rightnow if i wanted to turn on this printer i
can’t. “alexa turn off tv setupâ€so, as you saw it turned off the tv turned off the sound system and it turned off thexbox 360 let’s move over here for the next ones“alexa turn on zone 1†“alexa turn on zone 2â€â€œalexa turn on zone 3†i don’t know if you heard that but therewere clicks going on and those were the power being distributed more on that later. there are many more commands for the echobut those are just a few. next let's move on to siri.
so, we are going to be using siri on my applewatch which is right here. “hey siri turn on samsung tvâ€and as you saw it turned in my samsung tv. “hey siri turn on sound systemâ€see, sound system turned on “hey siri turn on xbox 360â€so, now if i go over to my xbox and press power it can turn on. “hey siri turn on dell monitorsâ€see, the monitors came online. let’s go back to the sprinkler system. “hey siri turn off sprinkler systemâ€i don’t know if you heard the clicks but they did click, more on that later.
same thing with the echo those were just afew commands there are many more but just to keep this video a little shorter i won'tsay them all. don’t worry there will be a another separatevideo for that. now let's take a look at the different userinterfaces as well as the different devices you can control the system from. first and my favorite is the wall mountedinterface, i like it because you can turn anything on or off at any time and it is motionactivated. let's turn off the lights, turn them backon and then let's also turn off the samsung tv, as you can see over there it’s off,and let’s turn it back on.
another cool thing is that if i cast somethingto the chromecast i can play, and i can pause, as well as control the volume. also let's set the led strip to blue to setthe mood while watching an mk-cargarage video for those wondering it’s my car channel,link below if you are interested. so, let’s go over to led strip control,and choose the color blue, so, now if we pan back over to the tv setup the color is blueon camera it looks a little purple but it is actually blue, we can also set it to green,and many, many, many more colors to choose from, literally any color you would want butlet’s go back and pause the video. in addition i can also control the securitysystem from here, it shows me the status of
the system, the status of the door and i canalso turn it on from here so let's enter the password and press enter to turn it on. and as you can see the security system didturn on. speaking of let's do a quick demo of one itsfeatures which is that if i open the door the led strip will turn to red and i willget a notification on my phone. as you can see the door is closed, now ifi open it the led strip turned to red and i got a notificationon my phone. lastly, my favorite thing is the fact thati can control the blinds from here so we can close, open and set them to half.
and here is a full clip of showing them openingand closing and setting them to half. next is the mobile device user interface whichworks on ios and android. on android as you can see we can have allthe devices to control. i can also see the temperature, humidity andif there is fire inside the home. lets just turn on the tv setup and turn on the computer setup. ios control is pretty much the same thingas android but on ios you can also control stuff from the home app, such as turn offthe tv setup and turn on zone 1, which is the sprinkler system but since it is currentlywinter i don't have it connected instead i have it connected to the fire sensor for demopurposes.
finally i can access the system from prettymuch any web browser so to do so “alexa turn on computer setup†and as you can seei currently have it open and have access to all the different control devices. for the last part of the video i am goingto quickly show you the devices and exactly which ones are controlled as well as whichones send information. this will not be detailed because the moredetailed information will be in the next video which is the explanation one. this is the control wall and it is basicallywhat controls the entire house. don’t worry about the gray panels we willnot be touching those instead we will be focusing
over here on the network and servers for thesmart home. next is the door sensor and it sends informationto the server. as you can see if we open it then on the tabletit changes state. moving to the right we have the sprinklersystem which we can control the different zones. attached to that is the fire sensor so, ifi activated zone 1 then the fire sensor will send a notification. in the media center over here we have a powerstrip which i can individually control the different devices such as the tv, sound systemand the xbox 360.
also i can control the led strip and chooseany color. as we keep moving right we can see the blindswhich as you know are controllable so currently it has 3 functions open, close and half. then finally we have the desk which also likethe media center has a power strip and each component can be individually controlled themonitors, macbook charger, and the accessories. so, that’s it that is my smart home / smartroom but, those are not all the devices there are some that i did not show and there areones that i am also currently working. if you are interested in making or learninghow to make these devices or even if you just like smart home tech then subscribe becausethere are plenty of videos coming.
speaking of if you guys want to see the nextvideo faster than it is scheduled then help get this video to 100 likes. also, go to mksmarthouse.com and on the homepage vote for which device you would like to have a guide for first. while you are there you can get some moreinformation on mk-smarthouse. finally, if you want some behind the scenesand what i am currently working on then follow mksmarthouse on social media the links arein the description.
alright thank you for watching and if youhave any questions leave them in the comments section or head over to the mksmarthouse.comforum where you have a better chance of it
getting answered. good bye!
